Customers Intimidate Whole Foods' CEO with Threats of Boycott Due to Obamacare Views

[tricky]

Originally Posted by david austin

So people are getting all up in arms to the point of wanting to destroy a company via boycott because he doesnt agree with the changes to the system.

He goes on to point out well thought out ideas and suggestions and the response is 'fuck him... he doesnt agree with my side'?

This is why our country is the the toilet bowl. Theres no actual compromise. Nobody is listening to anything except what their viewpoint leaders are saying. From BOTH sides.

Most whole foods customers are rich granola hippies and the ceo just took a giant shit in their face. without them, that company would be nothing. it take's a special kinda person to still buy organic milk for 6+ gallon in the midst of a recession.

are you people so fucking clueless as to basic business strategy. all you conservatives are acting like you've never taken one marketing class in your life.

don't piss off your customers.

PERIOD.

and ftr....it's not like every single person who shops at whole foods is boycotting them. just a few when you look at the big picture.


ps

is this just one more complaint of the right..we're already pushing nazi eugenics healthcare on the general population and now we're attacking free speech? facism? socialism? nazism? communism? what word do you have for us today?


on the flipside, would you support a store whose owner and/or ceo supported raising taxes on the rich or federal funding of abortion for all who wanted it or maybe stem cell research... we all have our hot button issues and this is one most of us on the left find the most important out of everything this country is facing right now....

[david austin]

Put his business practice aside

Again this is a larger issue that passes blurred party lines.

He is a well educated and well spoken man who doesnt agree.

Instead of yelling profanities and holding up a picket line sign he presents some very well constructed views on the issue along with some thoughts and ideas of what he would like to see.

ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG OR LEFT AND RIGHT

Its about intelligent people coming together and working to create the best system that will do its best to help the most and hurt the least.

But instead we are going to get mired in the muck of a bipartisan pissing match... which ultimately wont solve anything.

[tricky]

Originally Posted by david austin

Put his business practice aside

Again this is a larger issue that passes blurred party lines.

He is a well educated and well spoken man who doesnt agree.

Instead of yelling profanities and holding up a picket line sign he presents some very well constructed views on the issue along with some thoughts and ideas of what he would like to see.

ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG OR LEFT AND RIGHT

Its about intelligent people coming together and working to create the best system that will do its best to help the most and hurt the least.

But instead we are going to get mired in the muck of a bipartisan pissing match... which ultimately wont solve anything.

We don't need bipartisanship...we need action. It's completely about LEFT AND RIGHT. There is no common ground on this subject. This country is extremely polarized and getting moreso. And put his business practices aside? That's what we're talking about. Stay on subject. A lotta people don't like his views and chose not to support his company. The right has been playing this partisan game for years and they actually got what they wanted (tax cuts, government deregulation, corporate welfare, religion in government, etc etc etc) I'm not going to sing kumbaya and hold hands so we can come together and sacrifice core liberal principles on what need needs to be done.. You speak like an idealist...Some of live in the real world.

[david austin]

Originally Posted by tricky

We don't need bipartisanship...we need action.

Even if it isnt supported by a majority? Check

It's completely about LEFT AND RIGHT. There is no common ground on this subject. This country is extremely polarized and getting moreso.

Unfortunate really.

And put his business practices aside? That's what we're talking about. Stay on subject.

My point was the fact that he owns a business is ultimately beside the point. He is a well educated person stating a different point of view in a proper medium.

Oh wait... Those are bad

You speak like an idealist...Some of live in the real world.

Idealist? Perhaps... I would rather have people agree on enough issues to make a clear majority happy than push paper 'because we can'. It was wrong under Bush and it will be wrong under Obama.

Real World? Cute... really... it is.

[tricky]

Originally Posted by david austin

Even if it isnt supported by a majority? Check

Unfortunate really.

My point was the fact that he owns a business is ultimately beside the point. He is a well educated person stating a different point of view in a proper medium.

Oh wait... Those are bad

Idealist? Perhaps... I would rather have people agree on enough issues to make a clear majority happy than push paper 'because we can'. It was wrong under Bush and it will be wrong under Obama.

Real World? Cute... really... it is.

health care reform is supported my a majority...check!

heh thought you would like that (real world)

[Tyler Durden]

Originally Posted by Ash

people are such pussies. so the ceo of a corporation said something to hurt your feelings? now you have to shop at kroger? suck it up faggots.

Awesome PSA and possible contender for the DDM quote of the year.

[david austin]

Originally Posted by tricky

health care reform is supported my a majority...check!

heh thought you would like that (real world)

Of course 'reform' is supported by a majority. Even the most tranched Repub knows things need overhauling/tweaking

Obamas plan on the other hand is sitting precariously right at the 50% mark and slipping by the week.

You arent living in the real world if you think this is all because a radical right is running around calling everyone a nazi.

Look... this poll isnt from Fox!

From NBC's Mark Murray
Two weeks since raucous congressional town-hall meetings on health care became a national story — and days after President Barack Obama an holding his own town halls — Americans remain skeptical about White House plans to overhaul the nation’s health system, according to a new NBC News poll.

A plurality believes Obama’s health plan would worsen the quality of health care, a result that is virtually unchanged from last month’s NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. What’s more, only four in 10 approve of the president’s handling of the issue, which also is unchanged from July.

And a majority — 54 percent — is more concerned that the government will go too far in reforming the nation’s health care system, while 41 percent is more worried that the reform will not do enough to lower costs and cover the uninsured.

[tricky]

Originally Posted by david austin

Of course 'reform' is supported by a majority. Even the most tranched Repub knows things need overhauling/tweaking

Obamas plan on the other hand is sitting precariously right at the 50% mark and slipping by the week.

You arent living in the real world if you think this is all because a radical right is running around calling everyone a nazi.

Look... this poll isnt from Fox!

Let me assure you...I don't give a damn what the poll says. Obama's plan is what we need...to hell with majorities. Push that bitch through and to hell with the path of destruction left behind. I have no problem using reconciliation and firing the parliamentarian until we get one to agree with us....

[david austin]

Originally Posted by tricky

Let me assure you...I don't give a damn what the poll says. Obama's plan is what we need...to hell with majorities. Push that bitch through and to hell with the path of destruction left behind.

And this statement is fundamentally different than the radical right refusing to listen to anything that doesnt gel with Glen Becks point of view?

[PETA]

Originally Posted by tricky

Let me assure you...I don't give a damn what the poll says. Obama's plan is what we need...to hell with majorities.

This is exactly what Reid, Pelosi and Obama are saying and that is exactly why their bill is bogged down and why so many people are pissed at them.

[jaesun]

Originally Posted by tricky

Let me assure you...I don't give a damn what the poll says. Obama's plan is what we need...to hell with majorities. Push that bitch through and to hell with the path of destruction left behind. I have no problem using reconciliation and firing the parliamentarian until we get one to agree with us....

Now we know you are only out for yourself and some sort of revenge. Instead of caring about what is best for the country and the majority of the people in it, you'd rather destroy as much as you can for the fringe few. It is more important to you that you are right and everyone else is wrong than what is good for the country.

Originally Posted by PETA

This is exactly what Reid, Pelosi and Obama are saying and that is exactly why their bill is bogged down and why so many people are pissed at them.

Partly. The rest comes from the people who voted for Obama because they wanted true 'change' and are now realizing he is just like the others... Lies, broken promises, say one thing/do another, clear as mud, and puting personal ideology and career before the needs and wants of the American public.

Same shit, just coming out of a different ass. And guess who's left treading water in the bowl below.

[vinnie97]

Originally Posted by tricky

Let me assure you...I don't give a damn what the poll says. Obama's plan is what we need...to hell with majorities. Push that bitch through and to hell with the path of destruction left behind. I have no problem using reconciliation and firing the parliamentarian until we get one to agree with us....

Just remember which "side" believes in the 2nd amendment when the loud majority has had about enough of your party's totalitarian horseshit.

[FarangBa]

Originally Posted by tricky

intimidate? that's the free fucking market. we don't like mackey's views and are taking our business elsewhere. don't you normally rub one out to people being able to choose where they wanna shop?


fucking communist. you disgust me.

LMFAO... OMG, did you just call someone a communist? Dude, look in the mirror.

Surely, you were just being a smarty pants right?

[BigBallinColin]

Originally Posted by david austin

ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG OR LEFT AND RIGHT

Its about intelligent people coming together and working to create the best system that will do its best to help the most and hurt the least.

But instead we are going to get mired in the muck of a bipartisan pissing match... which ultimately wont solve anything.

damn dude exactly, we might need more time to get shit right, instead of right now. I am all for that.

[PETA]

Originally Posted by BigBallinColin

damn dude exactly, we might need more time to get shit right, instead of right now. I am all for that.

please check your pilot lights... is your apartment above a garage?